Sentence examples for financial roof from inspiring English sources

Against your better judgment you root for the project to be completed before the financial roof caves in.

He will take office at the newly created opera foundation Berliner Opernstiftung in summer 2006, with orders to bring the three companies -- the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Deutsche Oper and the Komische Oper -- under one financial roof and cut their combined spending in half by 2009.

But however convenient it may be to have all your financial products under one roof, you could end up paying over the odds by not shopping around," warned Mr Hagger.

Formed a decade ago in a merger that brought a range of financial services under one roof, Citigroup has received two bailouts from the government and announced plans last week to split itself in two.

On top of that, many chief executives of big universal banks, the ones that combine all sorts of financial services under one roof, "only understand a small part of the business," Mr. Griffin said, suggesting too many of them come from sales backgrounds.

Contrast this with Britain, where all financial supervision is under one roof outside the central bank, and Germany, which is setting up a similar system.

Six people from the firm convened at a nearby garden of potted trees and flowering rosemary on a skyscraper roof in the financial district.

It matters too because the FSA has recently added to its enormous portfolio two more whoppers: mortgages and non-life insurance.In its roughly five-year existence the FSA has achieved an enormous amount just by bringing Britain's formerly fragmented system of financial regulation under a single roof.

According to "Miniature Golf" by John Margolies (Abbeville Press), in 1926 a pair of entrepreneurs opened New York's first outdoor course on the roof of a financial district skyscraper and by 1930 said they operated 150 rooftop courses on hotels, clubs and nightspots across Manhattan, even as more grounded courses sprouted up on vacant lots around the city.

Bigness has created alienation and disconnectedness in our banking institutions and the result is that they are able to give themselves bonuses to buy a second or third home while refusing to help those in desperate need of financial help to keep one roof.

The city will soon be offering financial incentives for installing cool roofs, and it has launched a public-information campaign, including radio ads and signs on buses, to teach residents how to stay healthy during a heat wave.